Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who would have had him take the high road toward war or the low road of appeasement. He stayed, instead, on the rutted, booby-trapped road in between, and he made some forward progress. If he has, indeed, captured the word peace for the U.S., his patience and caution were well worth the prize...
...setbacks or successes of recent U.S. policy, events hardly warrant the overriding fear, which runs through all these volumes, that the U.S. will be too arrogant in world affairs. The greater danger is that the U.S. will become too impressed with its "limitations" and forget its opportunities. Realistic caution is obviously needed in U.S. policy, but so are imagination and a will to win. The advice from this quartet of distinguished foreign-policy brains is less than caution: it is a plea for compromise that sounds like a statement of the will to lose...
...Gave Us a Mind." U.S. officials, though pleased, sounded a note of caution. Pakistan is suffering from a lack of foreign exchange, has at the moment no dollars to remit any profits or repatriate any capital. Ali was taking the bold and worthwhile gamble that in five years or so, the influx of foreign capital and the benefits it brought would give Pakistan enough foreign exchange to make good on his pledge...
...fitness is estimated by the degree of enthusiasm he shows for a project, the national interest will suffer from the enforced conformity of his fellow scientists in the future. In its more extreme form, this pressure shows itself in book burnings, loyalty oaths, committee investigations, faculty firings, and super-caution...
...Chiang's forces attacked the mainland around Amoy with planes, artillery and fire from destroyers and gunboats. F-84 jets from Formosa joined the battle, pouring rockets and napalm on the enemy. The Communists answered with artillery and ack-ack. They did not use their MIGs -reflecting the caution they displayed in Korea, where MIGs did not venture over the front lines...